Research excellence and global reputation

Progress

Our objectives and tactics lay out the steps we’re taking to drive progress. Each year, we will review our approach and launch new initiatives to ensure we’re responding to changing conditions and taking advantage of new opportunities. Each tactic is influenced by our core beliefs:

  • Reputation: Strengthening our reputation as a global research university
  • Rochester: Contributing to and benefiting from a just and vibrant city of Rochester and the Rochester Region
  • DEIAJ: Furthering our commitment to actionable and accountable growth in diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice.

Here are the tactics for the first year of our strategic plan (FY23–24).

Grow, retain, and develop a diverse faculty in areas of distinction that will serve as the foundation for building our research eminence and reputation.

tactics
Leads:

  • David Figlio
    Provost
  • School deans

Key collaborators:

  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Office of the President
  • Office of Provost
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • University Facilities and Services
  • University of Rochester Medical Center CEO

Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester

Leads:

  • David Figlio
    Provost
  • School deans

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Research
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • University of Rochester Medical Center CEO

Core beliefs: Reputation; DEIAJ

Lead:

  • Kevin McFarland
    Vice Provost of Faculty

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Research
  • School Deans
  • Chief Financial Officer 

Core beliefs: Reputation; DEIAJ

Leads:

  • Adrienne Morgan
    Vice President, Institutional Office for Equity and Inclusion, and Chief Diversity Officer
  • Beth Olivares
    Associate Vice Provost for Academic Equity

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Institutional Office of Equity and Inclusion
  • Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs

Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ

Launch nimble, transdisciplinary centers for scholarly domains where we can be most consequential.

tactics

Leads:

  • Steve Dewhurst
    Senior Vice President for Research
  • David Figlio
    Provost

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer

Core beliefs: Reputation; DEIAJ

Lead:

  • Jenn Mathews
    Associate Vice Provost for Academic Administration and Chief Assessment Officer

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer

Core beliefs: Reputation

Leads:

  • Steve Dewhurst
    Senior Vice President for Research
  • Jenn Mathews
    Associate Vice Provost for Academic Administration and Chief Assessment Officer

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer

Core beliefs: Reputation

Leads:

  • Page Hetzel
    Vice President for Marketing and Communications

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer

Core beliefs: Reputation

Improve research facilities and operations to make research easier to conduct and more effective.

tactics
Leads:

  • Steve Dewhurst
    Senior Vice President for Research
  • Liz Milavec
    Executive Vice President for Administration and Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer
  • Mike Chihoski
    Senior Associate Vice President, Facilities and Services
  • School deans

Key collaborators:

  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Office of the President
  • Office of Provost
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • University Facilities and Services
  • University of Rochester Medical Center CEO

Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester

Leads:

  • Steve Dewhurst
    Senior Vice President for Research
  • Peter Robinson
    Vice President for Government Relations

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Provost
  • Office of Research
  • UR Ventures
  • Center for Business Engagement
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • University Facilities and Services
  • University of Rochester Medical Center CEO
  • Office for Clinical Research
  • NextCorps
  • City of Rochester

Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester

Leads:

  • Steve Dewhurst
    Senior Vice President for Research
  • Peter Robinson
    Vice President for Government Relations

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Provost
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • University Facilities and Services
  • University of Rochester Medical Center CEO
  • Office of Health Equity Research
  • NextCorps

Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester

Leads:

  • Steve Dewhurst
    Senior Vice President for Research
  • Peter Robinson
    Vice President for Government Relations
  • Harl Tolbert
    Associate Vice President for UR Ventures

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Provost
  • Office of Research
  • UR Ventures
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • University Facilities and Services
  • University of Rochester Medical Center CEO

Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester

Lead:

  • Liz Milavec
    Executive Vice President for Administration and Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer

Key collaborators:

  • Office of Research and Project Administration
  • Office of Provost
  • University Facilities and Services

Core beliefs: Reputation

Support and strengthen doctoral programs emerging from our areas of distinction.

tactics

Lead:

  • Melissa Sturge-Apple
    Vice Provost and University Dean of Graduate Education

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Provost
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • University of Rochester Medical Center CEO

Core beliefs: Reputation; DEIAJ

Lead:

  • Melissa Sturge-Apple
    Vice Provost and University Dean of Graduate Education

Key collaborators:

  • Office of the President
  • Office of Provost
  • Office of Research
  • School deans
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • University of Rochester Medical Center CEO

Core beliefs: Reputation; DEIAJ

Progress on additional goals

Each goal has objectives and tactics that will lead the University into a future with Boundless Possibility.